Chelsea manager Frank Lampard picked out midfielder Mateo Kovacic for praise even as his team were thumped 3-0 by Bayern Munich in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie.
A second-half brace by Serge Gnabry and a goal from Robert Lewandowski condemned the Blues to a heavy defeat and left their chances of progressing to the next stage of the competition in tatters.
Lampard admitted that Bayern were simply too good for his young side on the night, but felt many of them could learn a lot from the assured performance of Kovacic.
"They need to understand the levels that the Champions League is when they get to the knockout stage," Lampard said.
"A lot of the players there today either haven't played it, played maybe the Europa League, which is a big difference, or played in it a few years ago (but) certainly not at Chelsea to a point where we got to a success of semi-final, final, win it kind of times.
"I thought there were a couple of performances in our team, namely Kovacic, who played with a personality and a quality that makes you go, 'okay, he can play in pretty much any team with that level.'
"Other than that we need to say tonight wasn't a night where we showed that, and that's on an individual to take responsibility."
The Blues will now re-focus on ensuring they will be playing in next season's Champions League with a trip to Bournemouth on Saturday as they look to maintain their three point gap over Manchester United in the race for fourth place in the Premier League.
They could be forced to make do without Tammy Abraham , however, after their top scorer appeared to limp out of their warmdown against Bayern Munich after suffering an injury late on in the game.
